Scale: from chair to planet

Discussing the house as a residential unit, introducing the terms “plan” and “façade”, creating a layout for your house.

Adjusting the standard templates to our layouts; inserting our previously made chair and character into the house – have all the laws of scale and proportion been followed?

Studying the terms “rhythm” “contrast” “focus”, “proportions” based on streets located in some of the world’s most beautiful cities; designing our own street.

Building a cardboard bas-relief for our street; adding elements such as lamp posts, trees, and cars to our model

Revisiting the term “scale” based on famous skyscrapers; discussing the scale of such towers proportionate to humans, houses, streets, and cities.

Group work on constructing a tower from various building components.

Discussing the general layout schemes of large cities (Moscow, Paris, New-York); learning to plan our city with account for street location, landscape and natural factors.

Arranging our previously made houses and skyscrapers to form a city, completing it with a system of streets, parks, bridges, etc. Discussing the resulting layout type.

Summarizing and analyzing the information acquired throughout the duration of the course, moving from micro to macro level.